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Agi Mishol
Agi Mishol Agi Mishol was born in Hungary in 1947.

The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Mishol immigrated to Israel with her parents at the age of four. She has published 10 books of poetry including her latest, Look There: New and Selected Poems, and Moment.

She has been awarded the Prime Minister’s Prize and the first Yehuda Amichai Award. She teaches at Alma College in Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv University, and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Be’er Sheva.

A poetry theater performance of Mishol's work is in production for the Israel Festival in Jerusalem.
WORLD VOICES EVENTS
Thursday, April 27 at 7:00
Mixed Media: Writers on Their Languages

Saturday, April 29 at 4:00
Women Poets from the Middle East

Saturday, April 29 at 8:00
Dual Citizenship
Transmigration of Souls: Agi Mishol
Transmigration of Souls: Agi Mishol If only someone would explain / where the souls are, in a city or a town / or a kind of campground, / and how much one can count on a soul / whose entire existence is based on rumor. >> Read more
Mishol Online
Read Mishol's poetry online. >>More

Read Drunken Boat's interview with Mishol. >>More

Read Mishol's poems in The Mississippi Review. >>More
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